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Turkey's Erdogan says U.S. sent weapons to Kurdish fighters in Syria
YPG forces in northern Syria have been of tremendous assistance to US and coalition forces. Do you really think Erdogan's Turkish military rolled into Syria to battle Daesh? Its main task is to clear/cleanse the Rojava areas in northern Syria (i.e. Afrin canton, Cizire canton, Kobane canton) of Kurds. Erdogan has tasked the Turkish military to make certain that Kurds (YPG/YPJ) do not control any cities or territory in northern Syria.
A truckload of Erdogan propaganda. Turkish Kurds hate Erdogan because he began waging war on them (again) in 2015. This is the same Erdogan who refused to allow Kurdish fighters and supplies into the surrounded northern Syrian city of Kobane. He wanted ISIS to kill or enslave every Kurd remaining in the besieged city.
Turkish strongman Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more weapons to Kurdish fighters in northern Syria this week, saying Washington had delivered two plane loads of arms to what Ankara considers a terrorist group. Erdogan's comments are likely to add to the tension between Turkey and the United States over Syria, where Washington backs the Kurdish YPG forces against Islamic State. Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State but views the Syrian Kurdish YPG and its PYD political wing as an extension of Kurdish militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency on its own soil. "If you think you can finish off Daesh with the YPG and PYD, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups too," Erdogan said in comments in New York on Thursday that were broadcast on Turkish television. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
YPG forces in northern Syria have been of tremendous assistance to US and coalition forces. Do you really think Erdogan's Turkish military rolled into Syria to battle Daesh? Its main task is to clear/cleanse the Rojava areas in northern Syria (i.e. Afrin canton, Cizire canton, Kobane canton) of Kurds. Erdogan has tasked the Turkish military to make certain that Kurds (YPG/YPJ) do not control any cities or territory in northern Syria.